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Thanks to all of you for your comments. The Horn is quite a challenge, and as Daddy and Centex noted, it must have been a major challenge back in the 1790s. I did some research on this section of the story, and the phenomenon you're talking about is sometimes called "Drake's Lake" (as opposed to Drake's Passage) because the weather can suddenly become wonderfully calm. That doesn't seem to be the norm, though.
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Hopefully. The challenge of passing around Cape Horn was not insurmountable, but it was quite a challenge.
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I'm glad to bring him back to you. I'm not sure I'll make my chapter-a-week goal, but I do have a few chapters in the works.
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And indeed the captain was powerful. Especially on a cruise like this, the only recourse against him was mutiny.
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Aww. I don't think he was unduly harsh. I mean, would you rather drown or hang?
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I've been spending some time with him. This chapter was a little on the duller side, more of a transition/set-up chapter. The next two get more interesting. :-)
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Glad you were pleased.
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September, 1797 Granger sat at his table, eating supper and listening to Calvert’s report on his capture of the Spanish brig. “There were some 18 men aboard the brig. Of those 18, there were ten survivors, including the man we found in chains, my lord,” Calvert explained. “Of those, five are wounded, and five are healthy.” “What of the officers?” Granger asked. “There was a major escorting the man in chains, along with the captain
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An update for all of you long-suffering Granger fans. I have almost finished Chapter 26, and expect that it will be posted within the next few days. It will take a while before the posting pace picks up. If I was smart, I'd wait until I had a few chapters in hand before I started putting them up, but you all have been so patient, I'm not going to do that. That means you'll have to roll along with me, and sometimes wait a bit between installments. I think this way is better, giving you the choice.
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Good question. I still don't see JJ as the rebellious type who would go to that extreme. Part of the reason why Will was able to pull that off is because he's mature for his age, and he's smart. JJ may be smart (we don't really know the limits or expanse of his intellect) but he isn't mature enough to handle the process. In a strange way, he'll probably benefit from the trail Will has blazed. Usually it's the first kid who has to push the boundaries and get the parents to come to grips with what it's really like to raise a child, but Darius pretty much worked around them. I think Will's taken over that role.
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I was a column in Men's Health a long time ago; the one by that bartender guy that gives advice. A guy wrote in and was all guilty because he cheated on his wife. He wanted to know if he should tell her. The bartender guy said 'no', because then all you'd do is make yourself feel better and make her feel like shit. He said that the guy's penance for fucking up was the guilt he'd have to feel. I thought that was good advice, and it guided me as I thought about this chapter. Carter is the guy Will and Darius got in a fight with at the party Ella took them to.
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JJ really can't do that. Jeremy has pointed out to us that JJ has to live in something of a bubble, to cut that wholesome, post-Tonya Harding image skating demands. Emancipation would not work for him. I can't see his skating career surviving that. He really has more restraints on him because of that, and it gives Brad a lot more leverage over JJ than he had over Will. To JJ, his skating career is everything. And Brad has the ability to destroy that career.
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Tony is a work in progress.
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I think that's part of Will's deal. I do my own thing, you do yours. Now, if he's with a guy, and the guy cheats on him, I think he'll explode like his father. ;-)
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I posted this on my Yahoo group...thought I'd share it here too.
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Things have a way of coming out...grin.
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"...it is easy to see that the author, (who clearly views himself as just an outside observer and commentator) , enjoys this experience as do the rest of us." I never quite articulated it that way, but that's spot on!
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I think that what Will was getting at was that whether it was "wrong" of Brad to hook up with Wade or not, it's not his place to judge them. He's basically absolving himself of policing the peccadillos of others.
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Will is developing/has developed his own attitude toward infidelity. Now he's applying it, and it seems to work for him and for everyone else.
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December 15, 2000 Escorial, CA Will I lay in bed, fighting against the inevitable. I looked at the clock and saw that it was after one o’clock in the morning, but I didn’t open my eyes up enough to see the digits after the one. I wanted so badly to just go back to sleep, but it was not to be. My bladder had other plans. I dragged my ass out of bed and to the bathroom, peed like a racehorse, and then got hit by hunger pangs. Since I’d already gotten up and satisfied one urge, I fi
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What a great story! Good choice to launch the CSR
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Mark Arbour replied to methodwriter85's topic in Mark Arbour Fan Club's Topics
Actually, Will described JJ as someone who looked like he stepped out of GQ magazine. I visualize JJ as having wavy blond hair, but I don't think he would in 2000. I think it would be short, gelled, and spiky. -
So you're saying that nifty authors do better sex scenes? *pouts like JJ* :-) I think Will has Tony's number.
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So you're saying that nifty authors do better sex scenes? *pouts like JJ* :-) I think Will has Tony's number.
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But I've written about damn near everything. Almost. I guess that means I have a vivid imagination. If only my real life were that exciting.
